Williams's team conducted a "genome wide association study", in which the genetic codes of nearly 4, 000 Alzheimer's patients were compared with the genomes of almost 8, 000 healthy individuals.

威廉姆斯的研究小组进行了“全基因组关联研究”(genome wide association study)，他们将近4000名老年痴呆症患者的遗传密码与近8000名健康人的基因组进行了对比。

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We now have such tools as neuroimaging and genome-wide scans that hunt for genes related to risk, as well as big samples of people who've been followed over time.

我们现在已经有了像神经成像和全基因组扫描那样的工具来搜寻与阿尔茨海默氏症有关的基因，以及经一大批经过长时间随访的人群样本。

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And it is here that the new generation of genome-wide tests comes in.

这正是新一代的全基因组测试的切入点。

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One of the hot areas of research since the human genome was originally sequenced has been genome-wide association studies.

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Her project aims to establish a simple, robust and reproducible platform for a genome-wide search for new cancer autoantigens and the evaluation of the corresponding circulating autoantibodies as biomarkers.

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